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Determinants of environmental product and process innovations : new evidence on the basis of European panel data

Gutsche, Gunnar; Ziegler, Andreas - 2019

This paper empirically examines the determinants of corporate environmental product and process innovations. In contrast to previous studies, we use panel data from the ASSET4 and Worldscope databases for firms from 25 European countries between 2004 and 2017. This allows us to control for...

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Leading Edge Users and Latent Consumer Needs in Electromobility : Findings from a Nethnographic Study of User Innovation in High-Tech Online Communities

Pollok, Patrick; Lüttgens, Dirk; Piller, Frank T. - 2014

Netnography i.e. the systematic observation and analysis of online communities to generate insights for an innovation process, has been established as a method of user innovation in consumer goods industries. In this study we apply this technique for the first time in the context of a complex,...

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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services - Micro-Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2015

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present …

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COVID-19, firm innovation strategy and production efficiency : a stochastic frontier analysis of Caribbean firms

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2023

COVID-19, innovation, and technical efficiency for 13 Caribbean countries using the Innovation, Firm Performance, and Gender …

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Shoaling (School of Fish) as Competitive Strategy

Muthusamy, Senthil Kumar - 2015

Managers of established firms as well as emerging firms continually search for unique strategies that ensure better returns with minimal risk, and that enable their businesses to effectively outsmart the competitive challenges by attaining the advantages in terms of innovation, cost efficiency...

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Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization

Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2014

The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....

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Focused Firms and the Incentive to Innovate

Corts, Kenneth S. - 2015

This paper explores the possibility that a firm may make a credible strategic commitment to high levels of innovation by limiting its horizontal or vertical scope. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm decides whether to undertake an innovation that affects a system of products, which...

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Organizational culture and open innovation performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland

Mazur, Jolanta; Zaborek, Piotr - In: International journal of management and economics 51 (2016) 1, pp. 104-138

performance of SMEs. The main hypothesis of the study is that a special type of organizational culture (termed innovative culture … sources and higher levels of innovative, operational and financial performance. The study was based on a representative CATI … influence on an index of operational performance and ROI. Such statistical patterns suggest that fostering innovative culture is …

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Application of 'Small Steps Strategy' in the Management of European Companies

Mandru, Lidia - 2014

The extension of the European Union represents a huge opportunity for the companies, but in an equal measure it is a real challenge, namely the one to face competition with European enterprises. Quality stands for a constituent part of the competitiveness but the extension of the European Union...

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Marketing Communications Model for Innovation Networks

Correia, Tiago João; Mateus, Américo; Leonor, Susana - 2015

Innovation is an increasingly relevant concept for the success of any organization, but it also represents a set of internal and external considerations, barriers and challenges to overcome. Along the concept of innovation, new paradigms emerge such as open innovation and co-creation that are...

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